Chapter 204 – Qualifying Battle: The Beginning

“Knock knock knock ……”

Not long after Yun Che’s voice fell, a very light footstep landed outside the door, followed by the sound of a not-so-light, not-so-heavy knock on the door.

Cang Yue’s breath was held for a moment, her face was now flushed, her long hair was messy, and her blouse was even lifted by Yun Che, revealing a large portion of her upper body’s snowy muscles, it was impossible to see anyone in any way. She held her breath and said in as smooth a tone as possible, “Who is it?”

Outside, came Burning Jiecheng’s light and gentle voice: “It’s me, Burning Jiecheng.”

“Hm?” Yun Che glanced outside, then looked into Cang Yue’s eyes with a smile.

Yun Che’s gaze caused Cang Yue to feel a slight panic in her heart, fearing that he would misunderstand that she and Burning Jiecheng had something going on, she immediately returned with a cold and hard tone, “Young Lord Burning has come so late, what is so important?”

Burning Jiecheng smiled and said, “Just now, I was traveling to the mountain village at night, and when I happened to pass by here, I saw that the light in Her Highness’ room was still on, and I thought that Her Highness should not have rested so early in the morning. Tonight happens to be a full moon night, the full moon of the Heavenly Sword Villa has a unique and marvelous flavor, it would be a pity to miss it, if Your Highness is free, Jiecheng doesn’t know if he can take the liberty of inviting Your Highness to enjoy the moon together?”

The corner of Yun Che’s mouth twitched, and straightaway hated his teeth …… He was making out with Her Highness the Princess, and was about to have further development, and this bastard actually came over to invite her to enjoy the moon …… Reward your sister!

Cang Yue grabbed Yun Che’s wrist, shyly and anxiously glanced at him, and tried to calmly say, “Thank you for Burning Young Lord’s kind intentions, it’s just that I have no interest in enjoying the moon, if Burning Young Lord has nothing else to do, please return.”

Burning Jiecheng was silent for a short while, sighed and said, “Your Highness, there are some words that Jiecheng has been wanting to say to you face to face, I hope that Your Highness can give Jiecheng such an opportunity, after saying that, Jiecheng will definitely leave right away, and will never bother Your Highness.”

“I have already gone to sleep, if there is anything, let’s talk about it tomorrow. Young Lord Burn, please leave. ……”

Under Yun Che’s increasingly excessive behavior, her voice was already vaguely trembling. Although Burning Jiecheng had more or less heard some of it, he didn’t take it to heart, how could he possibly think that the princess that he was softly pleading with was currently being pressed up and down by a man.

He maintained enough patience and gentleman demeanor, did not rush to attack into the cut, but calmly said: “disturb the princess rest, Jiecheng a lot of guilt, I know that your highness because of some things on the Jiecheng prejudice, but Jiecheng to the princess’s heart, heaven and earth can be identified, the sun and moon can prove, if your highness is willing to give Jiecheng opportunity, your highness all the wishes of your highness, Jiecheng will do everything to achieve with the princess, also hope that your highness will give you a chance. Princess together to reach, I also hope that Your Highness will not reject the city again and again in a thousand miles away.”

Cang Yue: “……”

After Burning Jiecheng finished speaking, he took two steps back, then stopped stopping, his footsteps slowly leaving. After walking out of the courtyard, he tilted his head, glanced at the night sky, closed his eyes, and muttered faintly to himself, “In this world, other than me, Burning Jiecheng, there is no one who is qualified to have you. After all, you are the only imperial daughter, and even more so, the only woman that I, Burning Jade City, am so willing to have patience with.”

Burning Jie Cheng left, Cang Yue shrank in the corner of the bed, her watery eyes filled, pitifully said, “I and Burning Jie Cheng, there really isn’t anyone, you …… you won’t be angry.”

“Hmph, still say nothing.” Yun Che feigned to slate his face, “Little half of the night, actually found your bedroom to come, must be you told him.”

“Oooh …… no, it really isn’t, it must be that he heard it from the mouths of the Heavenly Sword disciples.”

“Is that so?…… If you want to prove it, pull back the quilt and obediently let me eat it.” Yun Che grabbed the other corner of the quilt and said colorfully.

“Ah–” Cang Yue a small shriek, pulling the quilt’s hand subconsciously tightened, her face reddened, pitifully said, “Don’t! Wait …… until after the match, okay? After the match, whatever you want to do to me, all …… all ……”

Yun Che laughed, as he pulled open the quilt and drilled in, gently hugging Cang Yue’s warm, soft and silky body, but didn’t take the next step, “This is what Senior Sister said herself, when the time comes, you can’t go back on your words.”

“Boing ……” Cang Yue covered her chest with both hands and buried her head in front of Yun Che’s chest, no longer daring to look up at him.

The lights in Cang Yue’s room went out. In a corner of the courtyard, Qin Wushan, who had been sitting there meditating without Yun Che and Burning Jiecheng noticing, shook his head and lowly recited, “Alas, youth that makes people envious ah ……”——– —

At 9:00 am the following day, the Heavenly Sword Villa Sword Discussion Stage.

The main sword platform and the thirty small sword platforms of the Sword Discussion Platform were all in the shape of a square circle, the main sword platform was a hundred feet long, and the small sword platforms were nearly twenty feet long. The sword platform was the place where Heavenly Sword Villa’s disciples would argue about swords, and it was also the place where the Cangfeng Ranking Battle had been fought. At this moment, the seats around the sword platform were already filled with a circle of people, and in front of each small piece of seat, there was a sign labeled with the name of the force or sect.

Behind each sign, there were generally seven people sitting. Only the Cangfeng Xuanfu’s sign was followed by a mere four people.

“It’s nine o’clock, it’s about to start.” Qin Wuhuang whispered.

Right at this moment, a loud and clear sound of sword whistles suddenly came from the sky, people’s eyes subconsciously lifted up, and they saw that hundreds of flying swords had appeared at some point in time from a distance of hundreds of feet, and these flying swords were like a spirit like a general flying recklessly in the air, and the sound of sword whistles broke through the air, and were extremely severe. These flying swords around the entire sword stage several weeks later, stayed in the air above the main seat, and then neatly suspended there, under the flying swords, an old man with a white beard slowly stepped out, forward a cupped fists, and said aloud: “I Sky Sword Villa Sword Cleansing Pavilion Elder Ling Wushui, the world’s heroes and young geniuses, on behalf of the top and bottom of the Heavenly Sword Villa, I would like to thank all of you for the honor of coming to Heavenly Sword! I would like to thank all of you on behalf of Heavenly Sword Villa for coming to Heavenly Sword Villa. This Cang Feng qualifying battle ……”

“This Ling Wulin, nicknamed the ‘Traceless Sword’, appears to be just an ordinary old man, but is rumored to have reached the eighth level of the Heavenly Xuan Realm, and I’m far from being a match for him. He has presided over multiple ranking battles, his temperament is fair and strict, he is not meticulous, even within the Heavenly Sword Villa, he has an extremely high prestige, even Ling Yuefeng respects him three times.” Qin Wouxian explained to Yun Che and Xia Yuanba in a low voice.

“Wow! More powerful than the Qin Mansion Master?” Xia Yuanba’s mouth opened wide with a shocked expression. When he had entered the Cangfeng Xuan Mansion and realized that Qin Wushang was actually the legendary “Heavenly Xuan Realm”, he had always treated him as a god-like existence.

“Hehe, in this Cangfeng Empire, there are too many people stronger than me.” Qin WuXian laughed, “I’m only at the third level of the Tian Xuan Realm nowadays, and I’m so far from this Ling Wushu, that ten of me wouldn’t be able to be a match for him. At the Tianxuan realm, each level of advancement is like ascending to the heavens, it’s incredibly difficult, and the effort in terms of time spent is far superior to that of crossing the entire ten levels of the Spirit Xuan realm. Moreover, below the fifth level of the Tianxuan Realm and above the fifth level were two completely different realms. Below the fifth level, those flourishing sects can be seen, above the fifth level, even the four great sects are very few, that is the real powerhouse …… the world-famous ”Ice Cloud Seven Immortals”, Xuan Li are all in the Tian Xuan realm above the fifth level. However, without counting the Ice Cloud Palace Master and the world-avoiding powerhouses, the only ones in the Ice Cloud Immortal Palace whose strength is strong enough to be above the fifth level of the Tian Xuan realm are these seven people.”

As he spoke, Ling Wushu’s pre-match set of words were almost finished. At this time, his voice rose steeply, his words shocking the ears, “The witness of this year’s Cang Feng Qualifying Battle is Elder Ling Kun from one of the four holy lands of the Tianxuan Continent – the Tianwei Sword Domain! With Elder Ling Kun’s strength and origin, I believe no one will question Elder Ling Kun’s qualifications and authority.”

The moment the words “Heavenly Mighty Sword Region” came out, the four seats were immediately shocked, especially those who had come to the qualifying battle for the first time and had only heard the name “Heavenly Mighty Sword Region” in legends before were even more trembling in their hearts, and their breaths were held at once… …Heavenly Mighty Sword Region, that is one of the four holy places that exist like a myth! Even those sect overlords felt a heavy and incomparable sense of pressure under those four words.

Witnesses from a holy land, what kind of realm should that be …… Who dares to make a fool of themselves in this qualifying battle?

It had long been heard that the Heavenly Sword Villa was involved with the Heavenly Mighty Sword Domain, and the fact that this elder from the Heavenly Mighty Sword Domain was also surnamed Ling also invariably confirmed this to everyone.

“Heavenly Mighty Sword Domain? What is that place?” The reactions of the people around him caused Xia Yuanba to be greatly confused for a while.

“…… A place that is a thousand times more powerful than the Heavenly Sword Villa …… Don’t ask any more questions.” Yun Che whispered.

“Ah!?” Xia Yuanba’s pair of eyes immediately widened wider than a bull’s eye.

When Ling Wulin shouted, a middle-aged man in green clothes stood up beside him and nodded slightly in greeting. At the moment he got up, everyone’s eyes were as if they were forcefully attracted by something, completely uncontrollably focused on his body …… This person’s age looked like he was forty or fifty years old, with a mediocre stature, mediocre looks, and an expressionless face, and people clearly saw him, but in addition to their eyes, their divine sense couldn’t feel his existence at all, as if he was just a bubble of illusory existence.

As he sat down, everyone’s gazes were also as if they were lined up by something, all of them falling elsewhere. At that instant, a deep sense of horror and awe arose in everyone’s hearts …… Worthy of being someone from the Holy Land, this Ling Kun was in a realm that they were afraid to be unable to comprehend at all.